Realizing the New Development of Agriculture and Countryside under the New normal

Looking back on 2014, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and with the joint efforts of the broad masses of farmers and rural workers, agricultural and rural development has made remarkable achievements and become a beautiful landscape under the new normal of economic development. Looking forward to 2015, how to consolidate the continuous improvement of agriculture and rural areas after years of high yield and income is a difficult problem that must be actively addressed and solved.

The "opinions on strengthening Reform and Innovation and speeding up Agricultural Modernization", that is, the No. 1 document of the CPC Central Committee in 2015, has just been released, which gives a clear answer to how to realize the new development of agriculture and rural areas under the new normal of economic development. That is, in accordance with the general requirements of stabilizing grain income, improving quality and efficiency, and driving innovation, we should continue to comprehensively deepen rural reform, comprehensively promote the construction of the rule of law in rural areas, and conscientiously implement the "five new" requirements put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping. Efforts should be made to tap new potential in improving grain production capacity, open up new ways to optimize agricultural structure, seek new breakthroughs in changing the mode of agricultural development, and achieve new results in increasing farmers' income. New steps have been taken in building a new countryside. We will further strengthen agriculture, make rural areas more beautiful and make farmers rich.

Tap new potential in improving grain production capacity. As long as the grain production capacity is stabilized and increased, we can "let the wind and waves rise, sit firmly in Diaoyutai" and always firmly hold the rice bowls of the Chinese people in our hands. To tap the new potential of grain production, we must first firmly adhere to the red line for the protection of cultivated land, speed up the delineation of permanent basic farmland, comprehensively strengthen the construction of high-standard farmland, and implement actions to protect and improve the quality of cultivated land, so as to ensure that cultivated land is not reduced and strive to improve land productivity. It is also necessary to speed up the construction of a number of major water conservancy backbone projects, give priority to water conservation, and solve the problem of "the last kilometer" of irrigation and water conservancy. In the end, we should rely on science and technology, improve the incentive mechanism for agricultural scientific and technological innovation, promote agricultural science and technology to make breakthroughs in key areas, and quickly transform them into real productive forces.

We will open up new ways to optimize the agricultural structure. Market demand is "navigator" and resource endowment is "locator". It is necessary to give better play to regional comparative advantages, better adapt to personalized and diversified consumption needs, promote the optimization and upgrading of agricultural structure, and make limited agricultural resources produce more, better, and safer agricultural products. To open up new ways to optimize the agricultural structure, it is necessary to scientifically determine the self-sufficiency level of major agricultural products and, on the premise of ensuring "basic self-sufficiency in grain and absolute safety of rations," carry out systematic planning on what to protect and how much to protect and how much to put, and to make a systematic plan. It is necessary to speed up the development of grass and animal husbandry and promote the coordinated development of the ternary structure of grain, economy and feed. It is necessary to vigorously cultivate characteristic agriculture, implement projects to improve the quality and efficiency of horticultural products, and promote large-scale, intensive, standardized livestock and poultry breeding and healthy aquaculture. It is necessary to improve the quality of agricultural products and the level of food safety, and ensure the safety of the common people's tongue.

To seek new breakthroughs in changing the mode of agricultural development. How to solve the "double squeeze" of rising agricultural production costs and the upside-down prices of major agricultural products at home and abroad, and how to break through the "double constraints" that the factors of agricultural resources are getting tighter and tighter and the carrying capacity of ecological environment is getting closer and closer to the limit? there is only one way out, that is, to speed up the transformation of the mode of agricultural development. As soon as possible, we should shift from extensive management, which mainly pursues output and rely on resource consumption, to paying equal attention to quantity and quality benefits, to improving competitiveness, to agricultural scientific and technological innovation, and to sustainable and intensive development. take the road of modern agricultural development with high output efficiency, product safety, resource saving and environment-friendly. In the past, in order to "have enough to eat", we overexploited agricultural resources, overused chemical fertilizers and pesticide agricultural films, and owed ecological and environmental accounts. in the future, we should not only put an end to new debts, but also gradually pay back old debts. Those who should return farmland should be returned, those that should be ecologically restored should be repaired, and those who should be treated should be treated as soon as possible. What needs to be made clear is that whether it is to optimize the agricultural structure or change the mode of agricultural development, it does not mean to relax grain production and never weaken the comprehensive production capacity of agriculture.

New achievements have been made in promoting the increase of farmers' income. Whether it is well-off or not, the key depends on the fellow-townsman, and the core is to see the fellow-villager's "money bag". Whether we can promote the rapid growth of farmers' income and maintain the momentum of narrowing the income gap between urban and rural residents under the new normal of economic development is a major test for the work of agriculture, rural areas and farmers. In order to increase farmers' income, priority should be given to ensuring agricultural and rural investment, and no matter how tight the financial situation is, it is necessary to ensure that agricultural input only increases but does not decrease. It is necessary to develop new industries, new business type and new models, extend the agricultural industrial chain, actively develop various functions of agriculture, tap the values of rural ecological leisure, tourism, culture and education, and promote the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas. It is necessary to promote the transfer of employment and entrepreneurship among farmers and expand channels to increase external income in rural areas. It is necessary to do a good job in the battle to help the poor through development and speed up the pace of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich in rural areas.

New steps have been taken in building a new countryside. In order to build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, we must not lose the rural end. To speed up the promotion of a new type of urbanization, the construction of a new countryside cannot be ignored. To promote the construction of a new countryside, we must adhere to planning first, strengthen the scientific and binding nature of village planning, improve the level of rural infrastructure, and promote the equalization of basic public services in urban and rural areas. It is necessary to comprehensively promote the improvement of the living environment in rural areas, focus on garbage and sewage treatment, and improve water and toilets, speed up the improvement of sanitary conditions in villages, and make rural areas a beautiful home for farmers to live and work in peace and contentment. It is necessary to give full play to the radiative and driving role of the new type of urbanization on agricultural modernization, classify and promote the settlement of the agricultural migrant population in cities and towns, ensure that migrant workers and their families can enjoy basic public services in cities and towns equally, and guide migrant workers with skills, capital and management experience to return home to start their own businesses.

Implementing the "five new" requirements for agricultural and rural development is a major task for the work of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" in the future. Only when we always regard solving the problems of agriculture, rural areas and farmers as the top priority, actively adapt to the new normal of economic development, have the courage to face challenges, dare to overcome difficulties, rely on reform to add momentum, and take the rule of law as a guarantee, can we better promote the simultaneous development of new industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, and provide strong support for sustained and healthy economic and social development.